butler would also be in association with abraham galloway as he returned to work with uncle sam. the confederates use african-american lay bore ebor. and allen pinkerton would say that was one of the best sources of information. those engaged in hard labor for the confederacy. those individuals, those colored men, persons of african descent are best source of information. and one african-american woman is noteworthy in the information she brings early in the war to the union. her name, mary luveste, she would leave norfolk and bring information critical to the union navy to washington. she was the servant of an, confederate engineer that was taking the -- "u.s.s.merimac" and converting it to an ironclad," css virginia" it would be called. and mary louveste, or trueveste would take tease plahese plans, them to washington and turn them over to the secretary of the navy, gideon wells. gideon wells would say she encountered no small risk bringing ininformation. the confederates were 90 days ahead of schedule on their ironclad. when she brings this, the conversion of the merrimac to a

he says of abraham galloway from north carolina. he writes of galloway. he allowed himself faithfully until uncle sam became involved with the rebels. who is john bull? that's the british military. he add aligned himself fatefully with british military. with john bull. what's going on here in canada? you have a military outpost. training. the commander of this outpost, or president as delany would describe it. william howard day. 1851 graduate up oberlin with a masters in theology. originally from new york. was editor of the news paper in the 1850s, the alien american out of cleveland. delany was a surgeon from, from -- from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. he was self-described, foreign secretary of this organization. organization needs a foreign secretary. and he was an operations officer. mary ann shadd-cary, she functioned very much like an adjective. she functioned very much like an adjunct. delany would write, in, in 1859, this would actually appear in a serial, in the magazine out of new york. edited by robert hamilton. today you can find this in a book "

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then you have abraham galloway, who would become a state senator in north carolina, would mysteriously die, which is real interesting because he kind of just -- after there's an attempted assassination on his life in 1871, he dies. in louisiana you have men like pinchback who would become lieutenant governor. when oscar dunn, another african-american who died in office lieutenant governor, died in office, pinchback becomes the lieutenant governor and then the governor. and pinchback is an interesting league member, an interesting person to track. because i believe that if you track pinchback, you'll see funding for the league after the war for union league and political aspirations. he would become a self-proclaimed civil rights lawyer when he moved to washington, d.c. in the late 1880s. you have -- you have the women that get involved in the suffrage movement. very much after the 15th amendment in particular. because now they have accomplished that, now their next goal is to get the right goal. mary ann shadd carey becomes one of the most active -- when i say active i mean illegally v